Grave Encounters (2011)

Grave Encounters was a successful paranormal reality television series that was canceled after five episodes following the crew's disappearance. Series' producer Jerry Hartfield presents raw scenes from recovered footage of the sixth and final episode.

The Grave Encounters crew—ghost hunter Lance Preston, occult specialist Sasha Parker, surveillance operator Matt White, cameraman T.C. Gibson, and fake psychic medium Houston Gray—is invited to examine the abandoned Collingwood Psychiatric Hospital, where unexplained phenomena have been reported for years. The hospital's caretaker Kenny Sandoval takes the crew on a day tour and explains the hospital's history, particularly of Dr. Arthur Friedkin, who performed unethical experiments and lobotomies on the hospital's patients before being killed by them.

As night falls, the crew lock themselves inside the hospital to begin their investigation, set up their base camp near the main entrance and position cameras throughout the hospital. No paranormal activity seems to occur within the first few hours until T. C. captures a door slamming behind him. Houston attempts to establish contact with the invisible entities responsible for this demonstration, but the incidents soon become more flagrant and hostile. The crew begin to repack in preparation for Kenny's return; Matt sets out alone to retrieve the cameras and disappears.

When neither Matt nor Kenny return, the crew forces the front doors open, but discover that they lead to another hallway, as well as to other false exits. They also note that it is still night time outside the hospital despite their clocks indicating that it is past morning. In their search for an exit, the crew encounter a girl whose face demonically distorts. As they flee in fear, Houston gets lost and is strangled by an invisible force, before being killed by a flash of light. The remaining crew members also discover that they have been fitted with identification bracelets bearing their names. They eventually find Matt, wearing a hospital gown and having gone mad; he mumbles nonsense about his apparent mental disorders, and explains that the only means of escape is to be "cured" by the hospital's residents. T. C. is suddenly pulled into a blood-filled bathtub by a ghost and disappears afterwards while Matt throws himself down an elevator shaft as Lance and Sasha are attacked by a demon.

Lance and Sasha enter the hospital's tunnels in search for an exit. Sasha falls ill and is abducted by a mist as she and Lance sleep; a terrified and unstable Lance wanders the tunnels alone and feeds on live rats to survive. He finds a door leading into Friedkin's operating room, which contains an altar and evidence of satanic rituals and black magic. Lance turns to see Friedkin's ghost and several nurses, who drag a screaming Lance to an operation table. The camera cuts out for a few moments before it is turned back on by a lobotomized Lance, who proclaims that he is now cured and allowed to leave before the footage ends.